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NASCAR Winston Cup Series - Goody's Body Pain 500

When: Sunday, April 2, 2000 - 1:00 p.m. ET on ESPN
Where: Martinsville Speedway
Distance: 500 Laps/263 Miles
Posted Awards: $2,228,867

The Field:
Field consists of the fastest 36 cars through time trials. Also, seven provisional starting positions based on 1999 owner points, for maximum 43- car field. The 43rd position is reserved for a past NWCS champion, if needed. If unused, it will go to the next eligible owner.

The Schedule:
Friday, Apr. 7th
11:00am Practice until 1:30pm
3:00pm Qualifying (positions 1-25, 1 lap)
Saturday, Apr. 8th
10:00am Practice until 11:45am
Final practice following the Craftsman Truck Series event for one hour
Sunday, Apr. 9th
1:00pm Start of the Goody's Body Pain 500

Track Facts
Martinsville Speedway is a .526-mile paved oval hosting the 45th Annual GOODY'S BODY PAIN 500. The track has 12-degree banking in all turns and the length of the front and back straights is 800 feet.

1999 Review
Tony Stewart won the pole for the 1999 Goody's Body Pain 500 and set a track-qualifying record in 19.875 seconds, 95.275 mph. It was his first NASCAR Winston Cup career pole. John Andretti won the race and became the sixth different race winner in 1999. On lap 21, the top four consisted of Rusty Wallace, Mark Martin, Jeff Burton and Jeff Gordon - a lineup that would not change except for the running order between those four for more than 200 laps. Those four drivers held the top four spots through five caution periods. During the final caution period, Andretti's team elected to take two tires and gained seven positions in the process. He passed J. Burton for the lead with just four laps remaining to capture his second NASCAR Winston cup career victory.

Goody's Body Pain 500 Notes
  • The NASCAR Winston Cup Leader Bonus is worth $70,000 for the Goody's Body Pain 500 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.
  • Bobby Labonte leads the NASCAR Winston Cup point standings by 84 points over second-place Mark Martin. This is the fifth straight race that Labonte has led the standings.
  • There have been 14 races won from the pole position - most recently by Bobby Hamilton in the 1998 Goody's 500.
  • Lee Petty holds the record for the driver that started the farthest back at Martinsville to win a race. He started 24th in the 1959 Virginia 500.
  • The 1999 fall race at Martinsville Speedway marked the first time there had been one pit road.
  • From 1993-1996, Rusty Wallace collected four consecutive wins at Martinsville.
  • There are nine active drivers that have won a pole position in this particular race at Martinsville Speedway - Terry Labonte, Dave Marcis, Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace, Bobby Labonte, Ricky Craven, Kenny Wallace, Bobby Hamilton and Tony Stewart.
  • Since 1994, there have been 11 different pole winners at Martinsville. Bobby Hamilton is the only driver to win two (1996 - fall race and 1998 - spring race).
  • Four drivers collected their first NASCAR Winston Cup starts at Martinsville: Dale Jarrett (4/29/84 - started 24th and finished 14th), Mike Skinner (4/27/86 - started 27th and finished 22nd), Stacy Compton (4/21/96 - started ninth and finished 33rd; his best NWC career start) and Mike Bliss (9/27/98 - started 25th and finished 25th).

Other Notes
  • Mark Martin has finished 16th or better in all seven races this season.
  • Jeff Gordon has now gone 12 races without a top-five finish. His last top-five finish was his win in the UAW-GM Quality 500 at Charlotte in October 1999. This is the longest that Gordon has gone without a top five in his 230-race NASCAR Winston Cup career.
  • Dale Jarrett dropped to eighth in the point standings, the lowest that he has been since he was 11th after the 1999 Las Vegas race in March.* A different driver has led the most laps in each of the first seven races in 2000. The driver who led the most laps has also won in five of the seven races this season.
  • In the 1988 Pannill Sweatshirts 500 on April 24, 1988, Dale Earnhardt came from his starting position of 14th to win one of his three races in the '88 NASCAR Winston Cup season. Only two cars were on the lead lap at the end of the 500-lap race - Earnhardt and second-place Sterling Marlin. Bobby Hillin made the position move of the race. Hillin started 29th and finished third, one lap down. For his win, Earnhardt collected $53,550. In last weekend's DIRECTV 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, Earnhardt finished seventh and earned $108,750.